Episode Guide

Season 10 Episode 6:

Caves and Coves

Nick forges a path around Jersey, a mecca for sea caves and secluded bays; the other team members are exploring their own stories on British shores; dark tales, cutting edge science and tales of wartime heroics abound.

Season 10 Episode 5:

Wild Waters

An exploration of why humans are driven to defy the elements and contend with perilous seas; battling against nature makes for thrilling spectacle and stories; exploring the many ways to work with and overcome the challenge of wild waters.

Season 10 Episode 4:

The Irish Sea

An Irish Sea odyssey investigates how this small sea and its swirling currents have shaped the island story and connected the isles; a wealth of surprising stories, from the Romans to Dublin Bay prawns.

Season 10 Episode 3:

Ingenious Isles

Nick Crane is following the Wales Coastal Path around Anglesey and taking in 700 years of inspired thinking and ingenious isles; at South Stack, he investigates how an innovative lighthouse was constructed on a precarious piece of rock.

Season 10 Episode 2:

Bounty from the Sea

Nick Crane is on an island odyssey in the Faroes, on a mission to gather all manner of bounty to take to a traditional feast; he starts by diving for 50-year-old mussels before discovering how the Faroese like to eat their sheep.

Season 9 Episode 1:

The Channel

The team explores surprising stories on both sides of the shallowest, narrowest and busiest seaways - the English Channel; Nick Crane is on the Channel's French coast to experience the secret life of Mont St. Michel.

Season 8 Episode 6:

All at Sea

Season 8 Episode 6:

All at Sea

Mark Horton relives a gruesome tale of cannibalism and murder that scandalized Victorian Britain and still affects the law today; in Milford Haven, Ruth celebrates the Dutch fishermen who crossed the North Sea to help defend Britain in 1940.

Season 7 Episode 5:

The Riddle of the Tides

Season 7 Episode 5:

Riddle of the Tides

Nick Crane confronts the power of the tides head-on as he paddles in a kayak to conquer the tidal rapids that swirl off the island of Anglesey; in Liverpool, a remarkable but forgotten machine used to predict the tides for the D-Day landings.

Season 7 Episode 4:

Peril from the Seas

Season 7 Episode 4:

Peril from the Seas

Nick tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703, the most devastating weather event ever to hit southern Britain, when lethal winds whipped in from the Atlantic to claim the lives of one in five seamen of the Royal Navy.

Season 7 Episode 3:

The Hidden History of Harbours

Season 7 Episode 2:

Life Beyond the Edge

Mark Horton is in Liverpool to visit the wreck of Brunel's great ship, the Great Eastern, and tells how she conquered the Atlantic by connecting Britain's edge to America with two thousand miles of telegraph wire.

Season 7 Episode 1:

The Mysteries of the Isles

Nick Crane is a deck-hand on a tall ship, reliving the great days of sail on a grueling yet exhilarating journey between the Northern Isles of Scotland; at Scapa Flow, Neil Oliver explores the mysterious death of Lord Kitchener.

Season 6 Episode 5:

Wales: Border to Border

Season 6 Episode 4:

Western Isles and Shetland

On Eriskay, Nick Crane gets unique access to the island's close knit communities and has a close encounter with a family of dolphins offshore; guga hunters on the Isle of Lewis; Neil Oliver explores the tragic shipwreck of the Iolaire.

Season 6 Episode 3:

The Netherlands

Nick Crane explores the coastline of the Netherlands, Tessa Dunlop looks at the trade in tulips, and Mark Horton reveals the age old skills that have made the Dutch the Grand Masters at creating new living space from the sea.

Season 6 Episode 2:

Devon and Cornwall

The journey continues around the shores of Devon and Cornwall; Nick Crane is on a fishing expedition on board one of the last remaining Brixham trawlers; exploring how Henry VIII built a string of cleverly positioned forts all along the south coast.

Season 6 Episode 2:

Devon and Cornwall

Season 6 Episode 1:

London to Antwerp

Nick Crane visits a new mega-port gateway to London, travels to Belgium where he investigates how a beautiful seaside resort became the base for Albert Einstein's battle against Nazi tyranny, and hunts down a forgotten Magritte masterpiece.

Season 5 Episode 8:

Hull to London

Season 5 Episode 7:

Denmark

Exploring Danish neighbors across the North Sea; the Danes top the polls as the happiest people on Earth; Neil Oliver is introduced to the uniquely Danish concept of `hygge', a cozy feeling hard to translate into English.

Season 5 Episode 1:

Heart of the British Isles

Season 4 Episode 8:

Rosyth to Hull

Neil Oliver visits the port of Rosyth to explore the scale of Britain's global sea trade, Miranda Krestovnikoff manages to land on the Bass Rock, Mark Horton is on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, and Dick Strawbridge meets famous riveters.

Inner Hebrides to Faroe Islands

Season 4 Episode 6:

Inner Hebrides to Faroe Islands

Season 4 Episode 5:

Anglesey to Blackpool

Blackpool is Britain's most visited seaside destination. The resort is a success but other resorts are not successful. Neil Oliver views the coast at high speed when he visits the RAF's world famous Pilot Factory and takes to the skies in a Hawk Jet.

Season 4 Episode 5:

Anglesey to Blackpool

Blackpool is Britain's most visited seaside destination. The resort is a success but other resorts are not successful. Neil Oliver views the coast at high speed when he visits the RAF's world famous Pilot Factory and takes to the skies in a Hawk Jet.

Season 1 Episode 8:

Cape Wrath to Orkney

Season 1 Episode 7:

Solway Firth to Skye

Nicholas Crane begins his journey along Scotland's west coast aboard the classic yacht Crunneaig; Alice Roberts joins the launch of the 11,000 metric ton warship, The Cardigan Bay Historian, on the river Clyde.

Season 1 Episode 6:

Northern Ireland

Season 1 Episode 6:

The Northern Ireland Coast

Season 1 Episode 5:

Liverpool to Carlisle

Season 1 Episode 4:

Aberystwyth to the Wirral

Neil discovers the story of a Welsh Atlantis lost beneath the waves, Miranda looks for leatherback turtles, Alice descends into the caves of Great Orme, and Nick canoes in the treacherous Menai Straits to examine the bridges to Anglesey.

Northern Ireland: Strangford Lough and Torr Head

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Pebbles

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Scotland: Cardigan Bay

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Sand Castles

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Sand

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Lobsters

Episode 70:

Australia: Darwin and Beyond

Tim Flannery begins this Top End adventure at Victoria Settlement and its tragic history in the struggle to colonize Australia's Northern Frontier; Neil Oliver examines the bombing of Darwin and a story of reconciliation between former enemies.

Australia: Victoria

Episode 68:

Australia: Gold to Sunshine Coast

On Australia's shiny Holiday Coast, Miriam Corowa investigates the engineering behind the 1970's Florida-style canal system of the Gold Coast; Brendan Moar dives headlong into a dangerous current to investigate the science of rips.

Episode 59:

London to Antwerp

Nick Crane visits a project to build a new seaport for London, before traveling across the channel to Belgium, where he takes a ride on a tram that runs along the coastline. Alice Roberts learns how to be a seaside landlady in Margate.